Bait fishhook



May l1, 1948 v H. H. BAKKEN 2,441,232

BAIT FISHHOOK Filed Dec. 10, 1945 Patented May 11, 1948 UNITED STATES PATE FFICE BAIT FISHHOOK Hans H. Bakken, Pueblo, Colo.

Application December 10, 1945, Serial No. 633,912

2 Claims. 1

This invention relates generally to the class of fishing and trapping and pertains particularly to improvements in shhooks,

The primary object of the present invention is to provide an improved shhook in which means is employed for concealing the shhook, particularly its lpointed end portion by means of a tubular artificial bait, so that the hook has the appearance of a fat worm or the like.

The invention will be best understood from a consideration of the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, with the understanding, however, that the invention is not to be conned to any strict'l conformity with the showing of the drawing but may be changed or lmodied so long as such changes or modifications mark no material departure from the salient features of the invention as expressed in the appended claims.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of a preferred embodiment of my invention;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same; and

Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1, drawn at an enlarged scale and being partially broken away.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In the drawing the numeral I denotes a iish hook which may be of any customary shape or design, and to whose longitudinal stem portion there is secured a disk or plate 2 by means of a soldering connection 3 or in any other suitable manner. The disk 2 is perforated or is stamped out so as to form a star 4 (Fig. 1) having a rim that surrounds the extremities of the star 4. A tubular artificial bait I2, which may be made of rubber or the like, and which preferably has the outer appearance of a iat worm, is suspended from the disk 2: and a coiled spring 5 is contained within the bait I2. The upper extremity of the spring 5 is connected to the star 4 at 6, while its lower extremity is soldered at 8 to a sleeve member 1, whose outwardly bent upper portion 9 supports the inwardly protruding part II of the lower end portion Ill of the bait I2. The spring 5 holds the end portion I0 of the bait I2 |in such a position that said end portion I0, which may be of another material than that used for the main portion of bait I2, is slightly above the pointed end I3 of the hook I, as may be seen in Fig. 3, thus concealing the pointed hook portion I3 entirely.

When a fish bites into the lower end portion the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawing shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

It is also to be understood that the following claims are intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention herein described, and all statements of the scope of the invention which as a matter of language might be said to fall therebetween.

Having thus fully describedmy said invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A baited iish hook comprising a fish hook which has a longitudinal stem portion and a curved hook portion and whose upper stem portion Ihas secured thereto a perforated plate, a tubular articial bait being suspended from said plate and being extended over the major portion of the stem ,portion and over the hook portion so as to conceal the pointed hook end entirely, resilient means being contained Within said articial bait for keeping the opposite end of said bait above said pointed hook end, and means for connecting the opposite end of said bait to said resilient means.

2. A baited sh hook comprising a fish hook which has a longitudinal stem portion and a curved hook portion and whose upper stem portion has secured thereto a perforated plate, a tubular artificial bait whose upper extremity is suspended from said plate being extended over the major portion of the stem Aportion and over the hook portion so as to conceal the pointed end of the hook, a coiled spring being contained Within said articial bait for keeping the opposite end of said bait above said pointed hook end, and a sleeve member being arranged in the lower extremity of said spring for connecting the latter to the opposite end of said bait.

. HANS H. BAKKEN.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the le of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 2,098,095 Hoefler Nov. 2, 1937 2,102,739 Peters Dec. 21, 1937 

